Our Last Forgotten Giant: Thomas On The Mountain

My 4th post of the week. For those keeping track, have no fear, I am not finished with the giants/trolls yet!! Because I still have to write about the 5 days I spent volunteering to help build a new one!!! But before doing that, I wanted to find the 7th giant: Thomas on the Mountain. […]

Rome, Copenhagen, and shenanigans galore.

You may be wondering “Where are the other 2 members of your immediate family?” or thinking “ok, kinda tired of seeing you and the youngest only, would love to see pics of the other 2 as well!” And you are not alone in these thoughts! The eldest has a very demanding social life – especially […]

Forgotten Giants continued: Little Tilde, Hilltop Trine, and Sleeping Louis

The first week of June the youngest and I found Little Tilde and Hilltop Trine. By this point Denmark had entered Phase 3 of re-opening and she and the oldest were back in school, in the classroom. She no longer had her 2 hour long lunch break. We had used the lunch break to look […]

Denmark’s Forgotten Giants (ok, 3 of them): Oscar, George, and Teddy.

Well hello everyone! After a not-insignificant hiatus from updating the blog, I’ve got a couple of posts to write – well, more than a hundred, really – but I’m going to commit to writing just two for the time being. And while I have plenty of excuses for not keeping up with this blog, for […]

To Be Or Not To Be A Hypochondriac in Denmark

** I published this before spending much (any) time on editing (not really recommended) and have added some post-publishing edits and comments and embellishing, marked with two stars. ** **Not to put a spoiler alert at the beginning of post in case someone wants skip all my stream of consciousness writing and random pictures, but […]

København Climate Strike

My best effort at correct pronunciation: “Ko-ben-hound” Many of you probably heard about the youth climate strikes happening around the world Sept 20th to Sept 27th. As a former climate movement organizer, I’ve personally become mostly cynical about protests and rallies and their impact. But in this particular case (and honestly in many other protest […]

American teens in Europe, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and dinner at Chin Chin.

If you have read the list “Hidden Europe: The Top 20 sights you’ll see when traveling with your teen,” (snort) you will have a greater understanding of the Saturday afternoon argument that is threatening to become routine in our family. The weather was glorious (and based on all 4 weather apps I consult, I was […]

Bikes, phones, vampires, Danish bureaucracy, and an intro to Danish pronunciations…

Vampires, wha…? (It’s there, promise!) Read on with patience and care… In our first 3 weeks we bought 6 bikes. They are all 2nd hand – bought either from DBA.dk ( Danish version of craigslist), or in local bike shops. This may be considered excessive by some (a colleague of MBH’s comment was “you might […]

Neighborhood Loppemarked!

It feels like it’s been ages and ages (In actuality only about 3 weeks) since I wrote and published a blog post. However, I’ve been taking pictures and THINKING CONSTANTLY about what I’m going to write, all the exciting (to me at least, still not sure it’s so exciting to others) things I’m going to […]